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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
Also Glasgow, going into the wrong area in the wrong team's colours. At least, that's how it used be, no idea if it still is. I think (but I may well be wrong) that there is underlying religious reasons behind which team there you choose to support.
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Yes, in Glasgow, there was at one time (and still is, but to a very much lesser extent) a very strong religious association with the two teams: Celtic are the Catholic team, Rangers the Protestant. It's essentially the same as the religious divide in Northern Ireland, and at one time, the Glasgow teams (or rather, their supporters) were very strongly connected with fund-raising for the paramilitaries in Northern Ireland. Luckily, all that is now behind us.